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Profile: Baseball Agent Leigh Steinberg
Certified Baseball Agent
Certified Football Agent
Certified Basketball Agent
Leigh Steinberg
Certified Baseball Agent
Certified Football Agent
Certified Basketball Agent
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Education:
Cal-Berkeley, J.D. 73
Cal-Berkeley, B.A. 71
Active NFL Contracts Negotiated: 6
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Services Provided:
Contract Negotiations
Endorsements |
Leigh Steinberg is widely recognized as the country's leading sports
attorney. During his remarkable 30-year career, Steinberg has represented
over 150 professional athletes in football, baseball, basketball, boxing
and Olympic sports. His firm, Leigh Steinberg Enterprises, maintains
a client roster that is highlighted by some of the most high profile
names in sport. Athletes such as Troy Aikman (Dallas Cowboys), Steve
Young (San Francisco 49ers), Ricky Williams (Miami Dolphins), Mark Brunell
(Washington Redskins), Ben Roethlisberger (Pittsburgh Steelers) and
Heavyweight Champion Lennox Lewis have been among his esteemed group.
He has represented the No. 1 pick overall in the NFL draft a record
eight times, a milestone unrivaled within the sports industry.
What distinguishes Steinberg from others within his profession is his
desire for athletes make a positive contribution to society. Steinberg
insists that every contract negotiated for his players include clauses
that require the athlete to give back to their hometown, high school,
university or national charities and foundations. According to Steinberg,
this allows the athlete to function as a positive role model by repaying
the community that helped shape him. As a result, Steinberg's clients
have donated over $60 million to hundreds of charities and scholarships
nationwide.
Always one to practice what he preaches, Steinberg contributes his
time and efforts to a variety of humanitarian causes. He has actively
been involved with the Human Relations Commission, Children Now, Children's
Miracle Network, CORO Fellows Program and the Starlight Foundation.
He founded and underwrites the Steinberg Leadership Institute, a nationwide
program run by the Anti-Defamation League preparing students to fight
racism and inequality throughout the world. He has endowed scholarships
at his high school, donated time and resources to organizations such
as Special Olympics, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation and Junior Achievement.
He has also endowed a classroom at Boalt Hall at the University of California
at Berkeley. Steinberg's community activism has drawn praise from the
political world. He has received accommodations from Congress, State
Senate, State Legislature, The Los Angeles City Council, Orange County
Board of Supervisors, President Reagan, President Bush and President
Clinton.
Setting the standard for athlete marketing and positioning, Steinberg
has helped pioneer the convergence between the sports and entertainment
industries. He has developed original television and film content for
Fox Television, Warner Brothers Studios, ABC Entertainment and HBO.
He has been at the forefront of the Internet revolution, creating and
building sports web-sites, strategically aligning his firm with ESPN's
Sportzone and developing online marketing courseware for professionals
and students alike. He has lent his marketing expertise to the video
game software business and serves as a member of the Board of Directors
for two software manufacturers. In an effort to share his 25 years of
experience in the sports business world with others, Steinberg wrote
a best selling book in 1998, Winning with Integrity, providing readers
insight on how to improve their life through non-confrontational negotiating.
True to form, a majority of the proceeds raised on his 1999 book tour
were donated to the Junior Achievement Educational Foundation.
With an abundance of resources and experiences unrivaled in sports
representation, Steinberg is frequently sought out to act as a consultant
on a variety of entertainment projects. He has received screen credit
as a Technical Consultant on the following feature films: "Jerry
Maguire," starring Tom Cruise, Oliver Stone's latest feature, "On
Any Given Sunday" and "For the Love of the Game," starring
Kevin Costner. He has also worked as a consultant for the HBO original
series, "Arli$$" and serves as the title sponsor of the annual
Newport Beach Film Festival.
An accomplished speaker, Steinberg has traveled the world addressing
topics ranging from sports and entertainment, to political and economic
issues. In 1992, Steinberg helped lead a successful campaign to prevent
the San Francisco Giants baseball club from relocating to Florida. For
his efforts, then San Francisco Mayor Frank Jordan honored him by declaring
"Leigh Steinberg Day" in the city of SF soon after. In 1994,
then Oakland Mayor Elihu Harris utilized Steinberg as a consultant in
his successful bid to prevent the Oakland Athletics baseball club from
relocating to Sacramento or San Jose. Steinberg also served as Co-Chairman
of the "Save the Rams" committee in its unsuccessful attempt
to keep the franchise from leaving Southern California and has been
active in pursuits to attract a new football franchise to locate in
Los Angeles. He has been featured on national television programs such
as "60 Minutes ," "Larry King Live," "The Today
Show" and in magazines such as Business Week, Sports Illustrated,
People, Success, Forbes, Playboy and GQ.
Steinberg was born and raised in Los Angeles where he attended Hamilton
High School. He attended the University of California at Los Angeles
for one year before transferring to the Berkeley campus. At Berkeley,
he was elected student body President and subsequently attended Berkeley's
Boalt Hall School of Law where he was elected President of his graduation
class and met his first client, Cal quarterback Steve Bartkowski.
Leigh resides in Newport Beach with his wife Lucy and their three children.
His list of major baseball clients has included some very famous names:
